Conceptual Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Back in 10 - large format photograph of conceptual message sign in landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in landscape of the American West
BACK I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Open Space, City Library, Stuttgart, Germany, German Interior Architecture Photo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Open Space, City Library
Stuttgart, Germany
2014
Contemporary Interior Architecture Photograph
A vision of contemporary minimalism and infinite knowledge, Reinhard ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
"Untitled 6.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 6.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Flora 23 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 23 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 19 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 19 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 17 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 17 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Amber Lens
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984)
Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Metal, Enamel
North Shore Motel Office II, Salton Sea, California - Architectural Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel, from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. Blue skies over this Californian classic mid-century modern Americana Motel exterior. Captured by Richard Heeps in the Salton...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Wood, Color, Resin
Flora 2 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 2 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 669, 8.5 cm x 10.2cm,
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate, not mounted.
Xulong Zh...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of a billboard signage in California desert landscape, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards cap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flora 11 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower & Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 11 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Flora 8 by Marisa Culatto - Still Life Photography, Color Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 8 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Reinhard Görner: Beinecke, New Haven (Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boston Public Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library
55.4 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66.5 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77.6 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbere...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
The Long Room III, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The vaulted ceiling arches above, while below a warm, golden light fills the room, illuminating bookshelves and cultural artifacts. The room is flanked by white marble busts of philosophers, writers, and great minds who have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world, adding a sense of gravitas and continuity to the space, and bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, glowing tones of aged brown wood, leather and gilt.
Reinhard Görner is known for invoking an atmosphere of awe, meditation and contemplation through crisp, richly detailed scenes of grand historical and cultural narratives. This effect is enhanced through aesthetically striking compositions, which might include stunning symmetry, portals through a series of doorways, and other careful choices of perspective and scale.
Görner's photography celebrates libraries as both shelters and places of escape. This particular photograph is part of his quest to explore the most beautiful and solemn reading rooms around the world. Görner aims to convey how architects play with shadows, light, proportions, and rhythms to create spaces that breathe beauty and silence.
Starting from his work with architect Sir Norman Foster in 2005, Görner has meticulously documented libraries' cathedral-like atmospheres across the globe. His photographs seek to convey the impact of architecture on our awareness of life, showcasing spaces that tell stories and refer to a time when aesthetics and spatial awareness were intertwined.
Embrace the tranquility and beauty encapsulated in Görner's art and allow it to transport you to the grand arches and timeless serenity of The Long Room, Trinity College Library. Perfect for art collectors, architecture enthusiasts, and advocates of intellectual history, this piece serves as a gateway to explore the spirit of great builders through Görner's distinctive lens.
Reinhard Görner
The Long Room, Trinity College Library
Dublin Ireland
50 x 62.5 inches
Contemporary large scale photograph
Signed and numbered on label, verso
Edition of 10
Collector gets the next number in the edition
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Large Scale Color Photograph Ektacolor C Print Art Photo Typography Sorel Cohen
By Sorel Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - )
Speak Silence- 1978
Ektacolor photograph and vinyl letter typography
Verso with gallery label for Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
41 inches x 53 inches
edition of 3
The original receipt included with this item is only available in the digital form. I only have the copy of it, not the original.
SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) A graduate of Concordia University, Cohen has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over thirty years. She has been invited as guest lecturer to many Canadian universities, and was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (1988). Her master’s thesis examined feminist art in the 1970s, while her art practice, which is largely autobiographical, weaves original links conceptual art, photography, painting and film. Cohen creates works that directly reference the historical and social context of the artist, especially through depictions of gender and the body. She has participated in numerous group shows both in Canada and abroad (France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, etc.) and has had solo exhibitions in major Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, as well as in New York, Marseilles, and Tempe, Arizona. ) She was included in the show She Photographs which presented thirty photographers, mostly Canadian, a few American, who explore the portrait or the self-portrait, nudes, still-life, landscape. Artists included Sarah Anne Johnson...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Doll Figurine Photograph Todd Gray
By Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS.
Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered.
It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper
Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color
Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Shadow Cartoons Polyptych Photograph Todd Gray
By Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS.
Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered.
It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper
Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color
Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Minnie Mouse Photograph Todd Gray
By Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS.
Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered.
It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper
Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color
Shooting Alley, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Blue Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This picture, 'Shooting Alley', taken in Ho Chi Minh City, has layers symmetry, depth, structure and tone which draw you in.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photograph...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants
Located in Carballo, ES
Ana Paes (A Guarda, 1982) makes us aware of the interstices that exist between one plane and another, shows us that this apparent continuity of the image-movement is, in fact, only a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Orthochromatic Positive - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciate the details of this vintage utili...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
By Iké Udé
Located in Surfside, FL
BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series,
I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the closed jacket photograph.
Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper.
Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 36
Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles.
I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned
The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art.
Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist,
Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria.
Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media."
Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art.
Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series.
Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags.
With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally.
Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Marshall - large format photograph of iconic cherry red Cadillac automobile
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic American vintage car with crimson red sheetmetal paint and custom logo tag
Marshall by Frank Schott
25 x 40 inches (64 x 102cm)
signed edition of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, Trinity College Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014
New York Public Library
New York, NY
50 x 63.5 inches
Ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 76.2 inches
Ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 88.9 inches
Ed. of 5
$11,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Sainte Geneviève II Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Sainte Geneviève II
Library
Paris, France
62.5" x 50"
Edition of 10
$6,000
75" x 60"
Edition of 7
$9,000
87.5" x 70"
Edition of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, 21st Century
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Chinese Classical), 2002, Edition 2/50 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival Pigment Print based on a POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 16.5x23.5inches, mounted on Aluminum, Signe...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #18. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
DETAIL FROM: FOUR REGENTS OF THE GROOT-KRAMERGILD, 1622 painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: Four Regents of the Groot-Kramergild
WERNER J. VAN DEN VALCKERT, 1622, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
Timeless authority, captured anew. In this masterful fine art photograph...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Deseo Insular III, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular XIV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of an alternative shot from the cover shoot for Aladdin Sane by David Bowie from the official Duffy Archive.
This official Duffy Archive print is avail...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Colour Instant Film, not mounted, 27 x 21.5 cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
American Girl, New York, NY - Contemporary portrait colour photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
American Girl, part of Richard Heeps street photography collection, capturing city's raw history before they change in the face of development. The picture is classic of his style of...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Wood, Resin, Color
Self Portrait #7. La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Oscar Niemeyer Staircase, Light Pastel Tones Interior Architecture, Still-Life
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
DETAIL FROM: Self Portrait with Velvet Cap and Gown with Fur Collar, Rembrandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DETAIL FROM: SELFPORTRAIT WITH VELVET CAP AND GOWN WITH FUR COLLAR, 2008
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, 1634
PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
A masterful reinterpretation by renowned photographer Reinh...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
TODAY - large format (framed) photograph of conceptual billboard sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
billboard against ultramarine blue night sky, a large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboards in landscape of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Ar...
Library Hall, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz Germany, Architecture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the Library Hall at the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Görlitz, Germany. Arches open like portals into the interior, bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, glowing tones of brown wood.
Reinhard Görner is known for invoking an atmosphere of awe, meditation and contemplation through crisp, richly detailed scenes of grand historical and cultural public narratives. This effect is enhanced through aesthetically striking compositions, which might include stunningly perfect (or interestingly-off) symmetry, portals through a series of doorways, and other careful choices of perspective and scale.
Housing about 150,000 volumes, this library is not only the largest in Görlitz, but also the most significant regional library between Dresden and Wrocław. Rich in history, it stands at the crossroads of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, serving as a beacon for historical research and knowledge transfer in the region. Lit by a warm, timeless glow, the scene leads you through multiple carved archways...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense
Ravenna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
The...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boschereccia Palazzo
Hercolani, Bologna, Italy
2022
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on labe...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Out of Nowhere, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Out of Nowhere, part of Reinhard Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the delicate interplay of deep purples, vibrant greens, and soft-focus backgrounds creates an evocative an...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Untitled VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
No Wifi, The Dream Art Project
Located in New York, NY
The photograph is available in three sizes. The print is proposed as a face-mount; it is mounted to acrylic at the front and Dibond at the back. It is ready to hang with a metal bracket on the wall.
This photograph by Anne Valverde, titled "No WiFi," is a profound commentary on the modern condition, where the absence of digital connectivity is a statement in itself. The image portrays a serene twilight scene by the water, with the sky painted in soft hues of pink, purple, and blue, reflecting onto the calm surface below. The contrast of colors between the sky and the water creates a tranquil and reflective mood.
The neon text "no wi fi" glows with an ironic warmth in the foreground, a stark reminder of the digital tether that often binds us. Its presence in this natural setting is a powerful juxtaposition, suggesting a disconnection from the digital world and an invitation to reconnect with the natural one. The reflection of the text on the water's surface emphasizes the theme of disconnect, mirroring the sentiment of severing the constant need for digital engagement.
This peaceful landscape, with its wide-open spaces, is an oasis away from the constant buzz of notifications and the glare of screens. It offers a moment of reprieve, a chance to breathe deeply and experience the environment with all senses unmediated by technology. The beauty of the scene is undisturbed, inviting viewers to contemplate the rare moments where we can be truly offline and present in the moment.
Valverde's "No WiFi" can be seen as an ode to the increasingly scarce luxury of unplugging, a gentle nudge to embrace the world beyond our devices. It reflects a growing desire for spaces and experiences that are not dictated by the presence of a wireless signal, highlighting the innate human need to sometimes just be in a place—physically, mentally, and emotionally. The photograph is a quiet celebration of these increasingly precious sanctuaries of silence and peace in our hyper-connected era.
Since 2015, Valverde has been working on a neon light installation project in several countries, which she materialises through photography. The DREAM ART PROJECT
Her portfolio “City Icons” in 2008 brought her work to public attention. A series about Iconic Monuments from Major cities like Paris, New York, Hong Kong, London, Dubaï… Writing with Neon brings together two passions for Anne Valverde: light and words thus incorporating her main medium of expression: Photography.
Valverde brings artificial light to areas where electricity is absent, creating a dissonance in the landscape and an unexpected and dreamlike light, creating a new message, independent from preexisting signs and words.
Valverde’s first message is "dream", as she invites the viewer to go past reality and reflect on open spaces for escape in a complex and tormented world.
Some themes are recurring: an amused gaze on social media omnipresence, hyper-connectivity or even office language shortcuts. This contemplation of the natural landscape suddenly opens up to a perspective on social evolution. By inserting neon lights in her photographs, she initiates a return...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Notre Dame 11 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Notre Dame 11' - Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP. Archival Pigment Print, Photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted. Signed, embossed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2011, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 59, not mounted, 27cm x 21.5cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Self Portrait #14 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #16 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #13 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Nude #15 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #10 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series.Limited edition Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Red Staircase, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 52 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 72.8 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Biblioteca Archiginnasio II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio
Bologna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Stairway to Heaven, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 46.3 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 55.6 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 64.8 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
MAYBE - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of a billboard signage against ultramarine blue night sky, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
A Traditional Bleached Watercolor Cyanotype on Wood Panel, "Now It Will Appear"
Located in San Diego, CA
A 12 "x 12" square and a 8" diameter circle diptych. It is a one of a kind Traditional Bleached Watercolor Cyanotype executed on Canson Montval and Hahnemuhle Sumi-E Paper Mounted o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE
H-O-P-E by Christ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II
New York
50 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 74.9 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trim...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
HOPE ( framed ) - 4 individual conceptual photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE
H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll
Incredible details in this body of work: focusing in on this epic photograph work, you will find yourself lost in the artwork's details. Reminiscent of the appropriation artwork of Vik Muniz, Christian Stoll arranges everyday objects to spell letters of the alphabet.
Only at close inspection does the viewer realize he/she is looking at an actual photograph, created in camera rather than with digital manipulation.
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Artwork can be installed vertically, horizontally, square or across multiple walls
4 individual photographs
individual artwork size
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61cm)
horizontal artwork composition
24 x 96 inches (61 x 244cm)
vertical artwork...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiv...
Self Portrait #21 From Un niño en el Chicle Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
MAYBE - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of a billboard signage against ultramarine blue night sky, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Stand By Me, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner's captivating close-up botanical photograph 'Stand By Me' invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the vibrant, sensual details of a blooming flower. The striking ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Jose Sierra, xulong zhang, and Gianfranco Pezzot. Frequently made by artists working with C Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual photography, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $46,412, while the average work sells for $3,512.